Actionable benchmarking reports depend on rigorous valuation and a robust list of participating companies.  CECP’s proprietary Corporate Giving Standard (CGS) tool brings these two essential elements together.  Over 180 companies, listed below, took part in the 2010 survey, creating an unsurpassed tool for setting budgets and strategy.  2007 to 2010 matched-set companies are identified in boldface and the top 100 companies of the Fortune 500 are marked with †.

Consumer Discretionary (N=22) Best Buy Co., Inc.† Carlson Darden Restaurants, Inc. DIRECTV, Inc. Gap Inc. Hasbro, Inc. The Home Depot, Inc.† J.C. Penney Company, Inc. Johnson Controls, Inc.† Levi Strauss & Co. Limited Brands, Inc. Macy’s, Inc. Mattel, Inc. The McGraw-Hill Companies Newell Rubbermaid Inc. Ogilvy & Mather Pearson plc Target† Time Warner Inc.† Toyota Motor North America, Inc. Toys“R”Us, Inc. The Walt Disney Company†   Consumer Staples (N=17) Altria Group, Inc. Campbell Soup Company Cargill The Coca-Cola Company† Colgate-Palmolive Company ConAgra Foods, Inc. CVS Caremark Corporation† General Mills, Inc. The Hershey Company Kimberly-Clark Corporation Kraft Foods† McCormick & Company, Incorporated PepsiCo† Philip Morris International† The Procter & Gamble Company† Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.† Woolworths Limited   Energy (N=8) Chesapeake Energy Corporation Chevron Corporation† CITGO Petroleum Corporation ConocoPhillips† Exxon Mobil Corporation† Hess Corporation† Peabody Energy Corporation Shell Oil Company   Financials (N=49) Allstate Insurance Company† American Express† AXA Equitable Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. Bank of America Corporation† Barclays Capital Bloomberg BNY Mellon Capital One Financial Corporation Citigroup Inc.† Citizens Financial Group, Inc. Credit Suisse Deloitte LLP Deutsche Bank Discover Financial Services Fannie Mae† First Data Corporation Genworth Financial, Inc. The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.† The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. HSBC Bank USA, N.A. ING Americas JPMorgan Chase & Co.† KPMG LLP Legg Mason, Inc. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company MBIA Inc. MetLife, Inc.† Moody’s Corporation Morgan Stanley† Nationwide Insurance New York Life Insurance Company† Northwestern Mutual NYSE Euronext The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. Popular, Inc. Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP Principal Financial Group Prudential Financial, Inc.† Royal Bank of Canada State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company† State Street Corporation T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. TIAA-CREF† The Travelers Companies, Inc. UBS Wells Fargo & Company† Zurich Financial Services Ltd.

Health Care (N=23) Abbott Laboratories† Aetna Inc.† Agilent Technologies, Inc. Amgen Inc. BD Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Cardinal Health, Inc.† CIGNA DaVita Inc. Eli Lilly and Company Express Scripts, Inc.† GlaxoSmithKline plc HCA Inc.† Humana Inc.† Johnson & Johnson† McKesson Corporation† Medtronic, Inc. Merck† Pfizer Inc† Quest Diagnostics Incorporated sanofi-aventis UnitedHealth Group† WellPoint, Inc.† Industrials (N=18) 3M† The Boeing Company† Caterpillar Inc.† Crane Co. Delta Air Lines, Inc.† Eaton Corporation Emerson Electric Co. FedEx Corporation† General Electric Company† Illinois Tool Works Inc. ITT Corporation Lockheed Martin Corporation† Meritor, Inc. Mitsubishi International Corporation Northrop Grumman Corporation† Pitney Bowes Inc. Ryder System, Inc. United Technologies Corporation†   Information Technology (N=21) Accenture Adobe Systems Incorporated Applied Materials, Inc. BMC Software Cisco Systems† Dell Inc.† eBay Inc. EMC Corporation Google Inc.† Hewlett-Packard Company† IBM Corporation† Intel Corporation† MasterCard Worldwide Microsoft Corporation† Qualcomm Incorporated Sabre Holdings salesforce.com Symantec Corporation Texas Instruments Incorporated The Western Union Company Xerox Corporation   Materials (N=9) Alcoa Inc. Arch Chemicals, Inc. Ashland Inc. The Dow Chemical Company† DuPont† FMC Corporation The Lubrizol Corporation Mosaic Company Praxair, Inc.   Telecommunication Services (N-3) Sprint Nextel Corporation† Verizon Communications Inc.† Vodafone Group Plc   Utilities (N=14) Consolidated Edison, Inc. Constellation Energy Group, Inc. Dominion Resources, Inc. Duke Energy Corporation Entergy Corporation National Grid OGE Energy Corp. PG&E Corporation PNM Resources, Inc. Progress Energy, Inc. Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated Sempra Energy Southern California Edison TECO Energy, Inc.